1. SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity www.argans.co.uk Level 2 Ocean Salinity Planning the year ahead 21 April 2015 ARGANS & SMOS L2OS ESL 1

2. SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity www.argans.co.uk Planning for 2015 2 4 May v6xx L1/L2 deployed, start of L2 reprocessing Training Course @ ESAC 18-22 May; Science Conference 25-29 May QWG#17 30 June – 2 July: updated DIP; task progress presentations July: milestone 1 acceptance of deliverables & progress report (30%) September: PM#28 @ ESAC (TBC) October: QWG#18 new processor results & task progress presentations updated DIP & LTP & delivery plan for Phase 2 for ESA (TBC) November: L2OS new processors FAT November: PM#29 via WebEx (TBC) December: milestone 2 acceptance of deliverables & progress report (50%)

3. SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity www.argans.co.uk PM#27 objectives 3 Share results & discuss issues – last face-to-face PM was May 2013 @ BEC! Review tasks, actions & priorities Gather status so we can draft a preliminary progress report for July Review & agree milestone deliverables for 2015 Plan what we want to present/discuss at QWG#17 Define technical specification for next version of L2OS processor

4. SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity www.argans.co.uk 2015 deliverables (as agreed at January KO meeting) 4 Milestone 1 (July 2015) Progress report Reprocessing report (move to M2?) T1.1: land-sea contamination TN (JT) Performance Assessment TN (all) Prototype processor using land-sea ADFs T2.2: updated roughness models & TGRD from ESL (x3) T1.3: TN on L1 data filtering based on new reprocessing Milestone 2 (December 2015): Progress report T1.1: land-sea TDS run using prototype processor ESL analysis (PPSR) of TDS using Performance Assessment TN New operational processor & docs (updated ATBD, DPM, TGRD, IODD…) T2.3: updated AUX_GAL2OS & TGRD & TDS & PPSR from ESL (JT) T3.3: new TEC product definition Above TBC with ESA Technical Officer & QWG…

5. SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity www.argans.co.uk 5 http://www.argans.co.uk/smos/L2OS/documents.html (smos, sss2008)

6. SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity www.argans.co.uk L2OS ESL Gantt chart 6 http://www.argans.co.uk/smos/L2OS/gantt.html

7. SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity www.argans.co.uk 7 Detailed Implementation Plan: http://www.argans.co.uk/smos/L2OS/DIP.html

8. SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity www.argans.co.uk 8 Detailed Implementation Plan: http://www.argans.co.uk/smos/L2OS/DIP.html